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Sep 27, 2012
09/12
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Conn Pictures Corporation
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The young brother of a State Trooper (Frankie Darro) helps capture murdering bandits.
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Topics: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Charlotte Henry
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Jul 10, 2012
07/12
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Monogram Pictures
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Frankie Darro is a soda-jerk/scientist in a small town that mobsters are suddenly attracted to.
Topics: Frankie Darro, Mary Kornman, Mantan Moreland
A Universal Pictures serial with Lionel Atwill and Frankie Darro
Topics: movie trailers, serials, matinee serials, Lionel Atwill, Frankie Darro
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Nov 15, 2012
11/12
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Conn Pictures Corporation
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Frankie Darro buys a broken-down horse and turns him into a racing winner, despite the racketeers who try to fix the races and put him out of business.
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Topics: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Gladys Blake
Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland are back as amateur sleuths in this sequel to "Irish Luck." Happily Mantan has more screen time in this one. Directed by Howard Bretherton Released in 1940 Probably a second-release edit. Free movie links for Mantan junkies: https://archive.org/post/1006776/the-mantan-moreland-list-update
Topics: Mysteries, Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland
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19K
Jan 14, 2012
01/12
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Maurice Conn
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"Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson (Berton Churchill) sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly (Frank Shannon) falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' (Frankie Darro) inherits the property and the troubles that come with it.
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Topics: Action, Drama, Romance, Frankie Darro
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May 15, 2012
05/12
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Conn Pictures Corporation, Directed by Charles Hutchison
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Frankie Darro is an honest boxer who is up against a criminal gangster that will either get Frankie to play by gangster rules, or get pushed out of boxing.
Topics: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Jack La Rue, Frances Grant
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Vacation Days Freddie Stewart, June Pressier, Noel Neill, Frankie Darro Monogram Pictures 1947 This is the fourth of eight films in The Teen Agers series.
Topics: Freddie Stewart, June Pressier, Noel Neill, Frankie Darro, Monogram Pictures, 1947
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Smart Politics Freddie Stewart, June Pressier, Noel Neill, Frankie Darro, Gene Krupa 1948 Monogram Pictures This is the seventh of eight films in The Teen Agers series.
Topics: Freddie Stewart, June Pressier, Noel Neill, Frankie Darro, Gene Krupa, Monogram Pictures, 1948,...
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Sep 11, 2015
09/15
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1935 directed by Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason starring Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Dorothy Christy, Wheeler Oakman and Smiley Burnette. Gene Autry stumbles upon the ancient underground city of Mu, which just happens to be beneath his Radio Ranch, which also just happens to be a rich site of radium. El-Stinko for Gene, when he falls down into the underground empire. Conflicts ensue... Hard-riding kiddie-cowboys Frankie Darro and Betsy King Ross do their part. These eps...
Topics: Phantom Empire, Gene Autry, B. Reeves Eason, Otto Brower, Frankie Darro, Betsy King-Ross, Dorothy...
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Dec 4, 2020
12/20
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Doris Dorn; Hunt Stromberg; Frankie Darro; Wallace MacDonald; Edith Roberts; Harry Carey; Tom Forman
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The low-budget adventures of newsreel cameramen costarring Frankie Darro and Kane Richmond. Be prepared for a nonsensical plot with attempts at juvenile humor and direction to match. Nevertheless it's worth a look if you're in the mood for silly fun. Directed by Leslie Goodwins (as Les Goodwins). Released in 1937. 4 minutes are missing. PRODUCTION NOTE: Conn Pictures Corporation was a poverty row Producer/distributor active between 1934 and 1938, during which they cranked out 39 feature films,...
Topics: Adventures, youth adventures, newsreels, Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, June Johnson, Ann Evers
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Dec 5, 2020
12/20
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Wadsworth Camp; Frankie Darro; James O. Spearing; Virginia Valli; Wallace Beery; Rockliffe Fellowes; Clarence Brown
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An actioner built around stock footage of Hoover Dam's construction. It plays like an extended serial chapter. Costarrs Roy Mason and Frankie Darro. Directed by Alan James. Released in 1935. 6 minutes are missing. CAST NOTE; Syd Saylor built a long and successful career mostly out of comedy relief. Between 1926 and 1966 he appeared in more than 450 film and television productions. His last role was in the feature film, "The Crawling Hand." Its trailer is here at IA.
Topics: Action-adventures, Hoover Dam construction stock footage, Roy Mason, Frankie Darro, Edwin Maxwell,...
A cold war era religious fantasy in which the voice of God is heard on radios all over the world. For most it's likely to have less impact today than it did for audiences in 1950. Okay second-banana cast. Directed by William A Wellman. TRIVIA: One of only three MGM films that didn't open with the Leo the Lion logo. CAST NOTE: Frankie Darro and Sherry Jackson appear as uncredited extras.
Topics: movie trailers, dramas, religious fantasies, James Whitmore, Nancy Reagan, Gary Gray, Lillian...
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Dec 5, 2012
12/12
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Conn Pictures Corporation
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Three ex-cons return to the scene of the crime to find the fourth bandit who kept the loot and turned them in.
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Topics: Frankie Darro, LeRoy Mason, Paul Fix
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Apr 18, 2011
04/11
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Lindsley Parsons
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Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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Topics: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Frankie Darro, Jackie Moran
1931 Serial featuring Rin Tin Tin. Variable video quality from a video master. Also stars Frankie Darro. Chapter Titles Drums of Doom The Wolf Man Empty Saddles Flaming Arrows The Invisible Enemy The Fatal Name The Ordeal of Fire The Man Who Knew Traitor's Hour Secret of the Cave Red Shadows Painted Faces
Topics: Rin Tin Tin, dog, german shepard, war hero, action, serial, mascot, Farnkie Darro
Based on actual conditions when 600,000 homeless kids roamed the roads and rode the rails. Was just added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry (2013)
Topics: movie trailers, dramas, the Depression, homeless kids, Rochelle Hudson, Frankie Darro
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Jul 2, 2006
07/06
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Maurice Conn
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Frankie Darro and Kane Richmond team-up to stop a gang of racketeers.
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Jun 26, 2010
06/10
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Howard Bretherton director 1940
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Murder mystery at a radio station. Movie features Mantan Moreland and Frankie Darro along with Marjorie Reynolds and Lorna Gray.
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Topics: mystery, action, comedy, musical
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Sarge Goes to College Freddie Stewart, June Pressier, Noel Neill, Frankie Darro, Alan Hale Jr., Frank Cady 1947 Monogram Pictures This is the fifth of eight films in The Teen Agers series.
Topics: Freddie Stewart, June Pressier, Noel Neill, 1947, Monogram Pictures, The Teen Agers, musical,...
This followup to "Svengali" is another John Barrymore star vehicle, and as such another old school melodrama with touches of horror. However it isn't as dark as "Svengali," and there are moments of deadpan comedy relief provided by Charles Butterworth. The production values are first rate.
Topics: movie trailers, melodramas, horror, ballet, John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth,...
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May 24, 2011
05/11
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Lindsley Parsons
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A tough street kid (Frankie Darro) takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son (Frank Coghlan Jr.) of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor (Grant Withers).
Topics: Crime, Drama
A 12 chapter Mascot serial that pits singing cowboy Gene Autry against a super-science underground civilization. The plot is as deliriously absurd as it sounds. The production values are surprisingly good. Wacky fun from beginning to end. It's available here at IA in the Short Format Films Collection (shorts). a.k.a. "Gene Autry and the Phantom Empire" TRIVIA: The robot suits were originally made for "Dancing Lady" (1932) but their scene was cut. Happily they survived to...
Topics: movie trailers, serials, matinee serials, westerns, sci fi, underground civilizations, Gene Autry,...
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"Radio Ranch" is a condensation of the 12 chapter, 1935 Mascot serial, "Phantom Empire," which features Gene Autry in his first screen role as a singing cowboy. The 70-minute feature version was released in 1940. Copious plot permutations were lost in this condensed version, but what it lacks in coherence, it makes up for in fast-paced wackiness. This version is of higher visual quality than other copies here at the Internet Archive and elsewhere.
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Topics: Radio Ranch, Phantom Empire, Science Fiction, Western, Musical, Serial, Feature, Gene Autry,...
Gene Autry discovers a futuristic civilization under his Radio Ranch in this Western-Sci-Fi-Musical hybrid. This feature film is an abbreviated version of the serial entitled "The Phantom Empire" from 1935.
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Topics: nuray, nuray pictures, radio ranch, gene autry, cowboy, western, 1940, phantom empire, sci-fi,...
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Nov 5, 2016
11/16
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Conn Pictures Corporation
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Title: The Devil Diamond Summary: A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces. Directed by: Leslie Goodwins Actors: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, June Gale Production Company: Conn Pictures Corporation Release Date: 15 January 1937 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1 A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Topics: Action, Crime
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Jun 21, 2007
06/07
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Lindsley Parsons
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Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland and Keye Luke in the tale of a college rowing team. It seems that the new guy and hope for the team to win the state championship has been drafted. Not wanting to let the girls down the boys end up getting a guy off the street to pretend to be the great new rower at a party. Unfortunately now that "Herc" has a taste for college life he won't leave and now its up to the guys to get him through classes and to make him into a great rower.
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Topic: Lindsley Parsons
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This movie is based on the movie serial . From IMDb : Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon a civilization buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show. Stars:...
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Topics: Sci-fi, Western
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Hello and welcome back to your phone or tablet's favorite film fest. So, while the world continues to hold its breath amid the Corona Crisis, we began to clean out our "projection" room and found a forgotten feature! Actually, this four film treat was going to be our 2019 Christmas release, but as you may remember, real life got in the way and we took some time off, and sadly, this collection sat on our hard drive until we began clearing out some dead files. Irregardless, not...
Topics: drive in, mystery, Mantan Moreland, comedy
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Jan 20, 2009
01/09
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Scott R. Dunlap
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Bellhop Buzzy and his pal Jefferson fumble their way to finding a killer in a hotel.
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Topics: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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11K
Aug 6, 2004
08/04
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Scott R. Dunlap
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You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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16K
Aug 3, 2004
08/04
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Grant Withers
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You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
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A young has been boxer (Charles Bronson in an early TV role) makes an agreement with the Public Defender to turn himself in for a probation violation. However, he has second thoughts and does something deperate instead. Season 2, Episode 30 (1955) Includes original commercials for Revlon with Mike Wallace, and Marlboro.
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Topics: Classic TV, Public Defender, Charles Bronson
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Jun 21, 2007
06/07
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Nat Levine
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From IMDB :When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to...
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Topics: Musical, Sci-Fi, Western, Serial
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28K
Jan 26, 2009
01/09
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Grant Withers
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Taken from IMDB : A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
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Topics: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
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Nov 25, 2011
11/11
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Nat Levine
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AKA Men with Steel Faces. Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935) Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
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Topics: Western, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Gene Autry
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Wild Boys of the Road is a 1933 pre-Code Depression-era American film directed by William Wellman and starring Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips, Rochelle Hudson, and Grant Mitchell. It tells the story of several teens forced into becoming hobos. The screenplay by Earl Baldwin is based on the story Desperate Youth by Daniel Ahern. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally,...
Topics: Wild Boys of the Road, 1933, pre-Code, Depression-era, American, film, William Wellman, Frankie...
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45K
Mar 8, 2019
03/19
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Mascot
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The Phantom Empire is a 1935 American Western serial filmdirected by Otto Brower and B. Reeves Eason and starring Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, and Betsy King Ross. Cowboy singer Gene Autry finds upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch.
Topics: Mascot, serial, cliffhanger, Gene Autry
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Jan 21, 2021
01/21
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MGM
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Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest – one woman from each state of the United States – are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
Topics: Edmund Lowe, The Fanchonettes, Downey Sisters, Peter Lind Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Frankie Darro,...
